How interesting that while the general employment
market has contracted by something in the order of 12
to 20 percent, that of the lobbyists has shrunk by only
8 percent! Oh my. Fun with statistics. Doesn’t this
mean that portion of employed people who are lobbyists
has risen by something like 50%? Some day, maybe,
something truthful will come out of the white house via
the mainstream media. But don’t hold your breath.

“About 1,400 lobbyists, or 8% of the industry, left in the three-month period ending June 30, according to a joint study of lobbying records by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics and OMB Watch.”

That 8% of them have left is good. That 100% should leave would be better still. That they should all be interned and interrogated until they reveal everything they know about the corruption of members of Congress would be even better that that, and that they should subsequently be handed over to the justice of the people’s tribunals would be perfection.

They should be registered, regulated and have the dog shit taxed out of them.

Now if even half of those retired lobbyists would have a change of heart and morph into whistle-blowers, we’d really have somethng to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.